On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:50:51AM -0500, V Alex Brennen wrote:
I don't even plan on subscribing myself. I just wanted to get the traffic off of cypherpunks.
Fair enough. You can remove the list, as far as I'm concerned. I don't give a damn about posting copyrighted content; no point posting to a closed-archive list if you've got cold feet. I can hide that information on my own hard drive as well.
Back when I first joined this list, cypherpunks where known for making news, not reading it. I recognized some
The world has moved on since, unfortunately. Wake up, and smell the Kafka.
addresses posting here recently from other lists that may suggest a revival is possible if we can clean things up a bit.
Yeah, you and John Galt.
For the most part, the only people who subscribed to the new list are the people who tend to forward news announcements. There seems to be very few consumers
Which part of "collaborative news filtering" you don't understand? Ideally, one should a producer and consumer in one person. Alas, most people are passive slobs, so it takes a lot of them to become critical.
(4 out of 7 subscribers on the new list - there's 8 total so far, one person subscribed twice).
Transhumantech has 300 subscribers. Five of them are active posters. I consider the list a success, and read it daily. It took several years to get there. Cypherpunk agenda is supposed to be a _widely_ held secret. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]